Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-30
BASE INGRATITUDE.
SOMETHING WHICH LOOKS VERY MUCH
LIERAPINB EXAMPLE OF THB ARTICLE
An UnknOwns Terrible Experience in an Empty
Freight ar-TwO Days and Nights Without
FOOd-Hs Rewards His RsSeusr BY
Stealing His Clothes.

What looks at present like a very fine
example of what is known as base ingratl-
tude was reported at police headquarters
last night by MI. William P. Taylor, an
employe of the B. & o. railroad, who lives
up stairs in the rear of No. zoos Main
street. Mr.. Taylor's story is as follows:
He is a member of the inspecting gang OF
the company at this point, and during the
morning he and others of his fellow-work-
men were examining a lot Of freight cars
standing on the side tracks south OF the
creek. The attention of Mr.. Taylor was
attracted to a noise in one of the cars, and
he opened it to see WHAT it contained. He
was somewhat astOnished to find a man in
the car, evidently very much exhausted
and suffering greatly from hunger and
thirst. Taylor procured the man q drink of
water and got him out of the car, when
the stranger said he had boarded the car
at Rowlesburg, W. Va, on Tuesday even.
ing last, intending to come as far on his
way westward as he cOuld that night and
trusting to luck TO get of in the morning.
Contrary to his expectations, however, the
car did not stop, and when it did, which
was late on Wednesday, he was unable to
make his cries for assistance heard. He
was compelled to remain in the car all that
day, and the following night, the train
moving on at irregular intervals and the
remainder of the time lying at sidings in
out OF the way places. Thursday morning
found him still in the car, at a point some
where near this city, and during the early
morning the train was run up to the city
and ~side-tracked in the yards on the South
Side. The fellow said he tried repeatedly
to make his presence known, but no one
paid any attention to him, and he began
to think he was doomed to die OF starva-
ton when Taylor and his companions
come along and let him out.
Mr.. Taylor told the stranger, who had
no money or no place to go that if he
would wait around until noon, then close
at hand, he would take him to his house
and get him his dinner. The stranger
cheerfully agreed to this, and when twelve
o'clock struck the two set out for TaylOr's
house. Arriving there, Taylor found that
his wife was not ut home, but he neverthe-
less took tine stranger in and the two
were soon discussing q meal. At n
o'clock Taylor went off to resume his work,
locking up the house, but leaving the
stranger in the vicinity. as he said he
wanted to rest. When Taylor came back
ut six o'clock last evening he found that
some one, presumably the stranger, had
gained access to the house by knocking q
board of the porch floor in the second
story and then climbing up and going
through u window. The house had beeD
ransacked and two good suits of clothes, a
hat, n pair of fine shoes, a b. u o. insur-
ance book and a ten dollar silver certifi-
cate carried off. At loon the stranger had
made some enquiries as to his chance of
jumping a freight train EN- route to Pitts
burg, and it is presumed he took that
method of getting out of town after doing
up his benefactOr.